KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A simple memorial to Jovan Belcher hangs on a wooden white fence outside the Chiefs’ practice facility. It’s a tiny sign: an arrowhead emblazoned with the number 59.

The grounds of the facility are closed to the public and otherwise almost completely empty. It is quiet and still in the parking lot; there is no way to know that anything out of the ordinary happened here Saturday morning, when Belcher, a 25-year-old linebacker, shot himself to death less than 30 minutes after murdering Kasandra Perkins, his 22-year-old girlfriend and the mother of their 3-month-old child.

In the vast lots outside the stadium, where barbecue-and-beer tailgates reign supreme, there are delicious smells and happy sounds, but they are not in abundance.

Asked whether the Chiefs’ game vs. the Carolina Panthers should be played Sunday, most say yes or aren’t quite sure.

One fan, a 50-year-old Independence, Mo., man in a Derrick Thomas jersey, said no.

“I don’t think it’s right,” he said.

Then why did he come?

“Because I had tickets.”

Arrowhead bills itself as the loudest stadium in the NFL, but game days have been quiet of late at the home of the league’s worst team. Asked if it’s so quiet Sunday because of the horrors of Saturday, one fan emitted a stoic half-chuckle.

“This is the new normal around here,” he said. “Just like last the past two weeks.”

Of course, there’s nothing normal about Sunday.

Even though the Chiefs will acknowledge the deaths of Perkins and Belcher only subtly—and fittingly—with a moment of silence in honor of victims of domestic violence.